i wouldn't assume all bass players also play guitar. there are a significant number of people who like to play bass but don't like guitar because of chords.

But if the tally is "People who have ever played at least one guitar song", even the people who prefer bass and main bass... have still at least played one guitar song, if only to find out they don't especially like ti and prefer to stick with Bass for most normal play.

I'd say far more than people who have never played bass at all because all they ever wanted to do with this game is be a guitar god and not explore anything outside that at all.

i wouldn't assume all bass players also play guitar. there are a significant number of people who like to play bass but don't like guitar because of chords.

But if the tally is "People who have ever played at least one guitar song", even the people who prefer bass and main bass... have still at least played one guitar song, if only to find out they don't especially like ti and prefer to stick with Bass for most normal play.

I'd say far more than people who have never played bass at all because all they ever wanted to do with this game is be a guitar god and not explore anything outside that at all.

i think that's less true for RB4. people have had 3 previous versions of the game (plus Lego, Beatles, Green Day) to figure out if they prefer to just play bass.

i wouldn't assume all bass players also play guitar. there are a significant number of people who like to play bass but don't like guitar because of chords.

But if the tally is "People who have ever played at least one guitar song", even the people who prefer bass and main bass... have still at least played one guitar song, if only to find out they don't especially like ti and prefer to stick with Bass for most normal play.

I'd say far more than people who have never played bass at all because all they ever wanted to do with this game is be a guitar god and not explore anything outside that at all.

Bas[s]ed on my own experience, this is more likely. I've joked about the "bawwww bass is boring" mentality among guitar mains a few times in my USL thread because really, it is a lot more prevalent than the "I don't like guitar because chords/HOPOs" mentality - hell, this thread is the first time I've seen the latter. It's a mentality that applies to the real life instruments as well - more people want to be guitarists than want to be bassists, after all.

Incidentally, this is why I quite like funk/disco, some reggae and specific songs like Longview and Caravan - they're the exceptions to the "bass is boring" idea, and great for trolling people who won't let other people play the guitar parts in multiplayer.